
Suzanne Yoon
Kinzie Capital Partners, LLC
Location: Chicago
Member Since: 2014
Membership Type: Full
Yoon has over 20 years experience investing in and advising middle market companies. Before founding Kinzie, she served as a Managing Director at Versa Capital Management, where she led transaction development throughout North America. Prior to that role, Yoon was a Senior Vice President of CIT Group. Yoon also co-founded LaSalle Bank/ABN AMRO’s Corporate Restructuring Group and held positions in distressed loan portfolio management and advisory at LaSalle Bank and Ernst and Young’s Corporate Finance group, respectively.
A respected leader in both the business and civic spheres, she serves on several private company boards and civic boards such as: The National Philanthropic Trust (NPT), the largest independent Donor Advised Fund manager in the world with over $14BL under management, where she serves as the Chair of the Board of Trustees; Chicago Public Library Foundation; and HFS Chicago Scholars, an organization that serves economically disadvantaged Chicago inner-city high school students. Additionally, Yoon serves on the Steering Committees of PEWIN and Women’s Association of Venture & Equity (WAVE.) She is also a member of the Association of Asian American Investment Managers and the Economic Club of Chicago.
Yoon earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of Iowa and is an Executive Scholar of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. In 2020, Mergers & Acquisitions named her to the 2020 Most Influential Women in Mid-Market M&A and she was recognized as a Chicago Business Journal Woman of Influence. Suzanne lives in Chicago with her husband and three children and is an outdoor and sports enthusiast who enjoys golfing and fishing with her family.